bug#11532: automake-1.12.0b self test failures: t/remake8b & t/remake9c

[Simon Josefsson]

Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:

> severity 11532 minor
> tags 11532 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Reference:
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11532>
>
> On 05/21/2012 02:24 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Hi!  I got two failures on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system,
>> see output below.
>> 
>> FAIL: t/remake8b
>> FAIL: t/remake9c
>>
>
> Hi Simon, sorry for the delay.
>
> So far I've been unable to reproduce these failures.  Can you try if they
> are still present in Automake 1.12.2?  If yes, do they happen consistently
> or racily?  Do you have a special/unusual system setup that might be
> causing them?  Any other details or ideas you can provide?

As I recall it was a fairly vanilla install.  However, automake 1.12.2
passes all tests except 't/aclocal7' on the same machine (see below)
now.  Out of around 10 attempts of 'make check TESTS=t/aclocal7', it
only succeeded once.

/Simon

FAIL: t/aclocal7
================

Running from installcheck: no
Using TAP: no
PATH = 
/home/jas/src/automake-1.12.2/t/ax:/home/jas/src/automake-1.12.2/t/wrap:/home/jas/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/b
in:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/jas/bin
+++ pwd
/home/jas/src/automake-1.12.2/t/aclocal7.dir
+ cat
+ mkdir sub
+ :
+ cat
+ :
+ mkdir m4
+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [])'
+ aclocal-1.12 -Werror -I m4
+ AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
+ sleep 2
+ automake-1.12 --foreign -Werror -Wall --no-force
+ touch foo
+ sleep 2
+ aclocal-1.12 -Werror -I m4
+ AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
+ sleep 2
+ automake-1.12 --foreign -Werror -Wall --no-force
+ is_newest foo aclocal.m4 Makefile.in sub/Makefile.in
is_newest: these files are newer than 'foo':
* aclocal.m4
* Makefile.in
* sub/Makefile.in
+ exit_status=1
+ set +e
+ cd /home/jas/src/automake-1.12.2
+ test no = yes
+ case $am_explicit_skips in
+ test 1 -eq 0
+ keep_testdirs=yes
+ am_keeping_testdirs
+ case $keep_testdirs in
+ return 0
+ set +x
aclocal7: exit 1